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...easy, so France is trying to signal its goodwill to the U.S. in other forms - notably in the planning for this June's meeting of the G-8, with France presiding in Evian. One impartial western diplomat involved in that process says the French have been "bending over backward" to accommodate American wishes for the event. They have given the Americans "everything they wanted," right down to a preferred time slot for the arrival of Air Force One and a higher profile for counterterror issues on the summit agenda. Those relatively painless accommodations hardly signal French contrition...
...charged with two runs, the second unearned. Walsh pulled Ronz in favor of closer Barry Wahlberg to get the final out of the ninth with a man on third, and Wahlberg appeared to have gotten the job done when Chernoff popped his pitch to shallow right. But Farkes, racing backwards while pursuing the tough play, fell backward and lost the ball, allowing Adam Balkan to score. With the Crimson already struggling and Pauly still on the mound, there would be no second rally...
...When I took cover that afternoon, I thought for a moment that perhaps I should call the office. An idea like this would have occurred in previous wars, but this time is different, even for a technologically backward print journalist like myself. This is a war of Thurayas - the tiny satellite phones little bigger than a cell phone - and text messages. We correspondents are now joined, umbilical-like, to each other and the rest of the world. So we zoom up Kurdistan's mountain roads, messaging each other from our cars - no more stopping to assemble, swivel around and curse...
...their way to a raucous celebration in West Berlin. Over the next few days, the revelers hammered away at the most notorious symbol of Soviet communist repression and toasted their newfound freedom with bottles of champagne. But joy was soon dampened by the daunting burden of rebuilding the backward East. More than a decade after Germany officially unified in 1990, the country is still suffering the hangover. --By Daniel Eisenberg
WYNTON MARSALIS. Controversially backward-looking trumpeter and titan of the contemporary jazz world tours the country with his father and brothers. Monday, March 3. Symphony Hall, 301 Mass...